Education
Transform Our Offerings
We will broaden who we teach, diversify how we teach, and enrich what we teach in response to evolving public health priorities and emerging challenges.
Rollins is one of the world’s top-ranked schools for public health graduate education. If we want to maintain that reputation in a shifting landscape, we’ll need to continue our excellent MPH program and student experience while finding new ways to reach the next generation.
To that end, we’ll modernize and reshape our offerings, introducing new courses and new teaching formats. We’ll reach new audiences, catering to the diverse needs of a broad range of students and professionals. We will develop more flexible learning options that include accelerated and short-term formats, hybrid, and online courses.
Our programs will evolve to include new content areas and interdisciplinary training. That will mean re-envisioning our core curriculum to better integrate professional public health skills. We will explore other master’s degree programs that align with faculty expertise to address emerging public health issues and untapped markets.
We will enhance our pedagogical approach to ensure our curriculum promotes cultural humility, social justice, and health equity, preparing students to engage in multisectoral public health practice.
All of these tactics will ensure that we continue to bring the best and the brightest to Rollins. And, this work will ensure that our student population and program goals reflect the needs of our world today and the knowledge and skills required to be a public health leader in diverse local and global communities. Such training is critical to continued excellence and impact in public health.
Expanding Our Programs
Objectives and Tactics
- Create more flexible degree-granting programs to reach a broader student population and more working professionals.
- Establish the Rollins Health Education Institute to offer continuing education opportunities for the public health workforce and professionals from other fields who are interested in learning about or transitioning to public health work.
- Enhance strategies to address student support and examine unmet needs (e.g., financial support, academic support, and guidance for international students).
- Expand recruitment and marketing efforts to key markets to attract a wide range of students.
- Expand online course offerings across all programs by offering financial support and training for instructors and TAs along with increased infrastructure for course development and delivery.
- Enhance faculty support for course design, development, and implementation and facilitate the scholarship of public health teaching through the Rollins Teaching and Learning Core.
- Offer faculty training and continuing professional development opportunities in inclusive pedagogies to ensure that we deliver our curricular experiences from a perspective of cultural humility, social justice, and health equity across all programs.
- Ensure doctoral students are considered in our student experience programs, in collaboration with the James T. Laney School of Graduate Studies.
- Develop new master’s degree programs at Rollins, and establish joint programs in collaboration with other Emory schools as well as other institutions to address emerging public health issues.
- Explore the possibility of offering a DrPH program to prepare public health professionals for leadership roles.
- Provide training in cultural humility, social justice, and health equity to all students to equip them with the skills necessary to advance the health and well-being of all people.
- Integrate additional professional public health skills into our core curriculum, including public health communication, data visualization, and interpersonal engagement techniques.
